Definition of quack

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Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

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Salver :: Salver (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..
Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.
Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.
Quack Grass :: Quack grass () See Quitch grass.
Quackling :: Quackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quackl.
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Quacking :: Quacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quac.
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Quacksalver :: Quacksalver (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Quack :: Quack (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise..
Medicaster :: Medicaster (n.) A quack.
Quackism :: Quackism (n.) Quackery.
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine..
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
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